A little more about my story

I was born in Sydney and have lived in Paris for close-on thirty years. I’m proud to have created a business that has transformed the lives of women in law firms and financial organisations across the world.

Through my one-to-one and group coaching, my Brave New Women podcast, my Paris-based “Firm Women” group of English-speaking women lawyers, my speaking on gender equity and an audience in multiple countries, I help women like you dream big and take action.

I was fortunate to have parents who supported me and encouraged me in all my endeavours. My father was a highly-respected lawyer in one of the big Sydney law firms and my mother is (still in the late 80s!) hugely creative and an achiever of amazing projects.

I initially followed in my father’s footsteps and worked hard to build a successful career as a lawyer - I’m qualified in Australia, the UK and France - before taking an amazing opportunity to structure investment funds for an international asset manager. I was lucky to have great colleagues, interesting work and earn a decent salary.

At the same time, influenced by my mother, I was developing other passions. I started my career as a mezzo-soprano in London in 1990 - and haven’t ever stopped. For the last twenty years, I have been working with Anne Epstein - and she herself studies with Ronald Klecamp, one of the best singing teachers in Europe. More recently, I rediscovered my childhood love of writing.

Since 2017, I have been combining these skills in my one-women shows - and discovering how great it feels to be on stage and create a deep emotional connection with the audience.

I have always been fascinated to know how people can be successful, happy and creatively-fulfilled. I worked with Gestalt therapists in life-changing individual and group therapy for seven years. When I use the highly-creative Gestalt techniques with my clients, they light up as they reconnect to their own creativity and understand its power in achieving their goals. I bring to my work all that I have learned from my own internationally-recognised coaches, plus my training as a certified coach and mediator.

During my career in law and finance, I realised that many highly-competent, intelligent women were holding themselves back from speaking in public and waiting for others to notice their good work. I realised that I could use my understanding of what it was like to be a woman in the corporate world with all the skills I had developed outside work to help women like me fulfil their potential.

This was so important to me that I gave up the security of my job at the asset manager and slowly began to build a coaching business from the ground up.